Happy Memorial Day!

We typically think of this day as the beginning of summer. The season to slow down, go on vacation, get rest, and take a break from our typical year long routines.

We can think of it as a sabbatical of sorts.

The things we do each day ”“ our work ”“ are good for us. We feel a sense of pride, accomplishment and productivity by accomplishing the tasks we do each day. God ordained for us to work:

• “Be fruitful and increase in number” (Genesis 1:28)
• “fill the earth and subdue it”
• “rule over the fish of the sea and birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground”

We are even told in Genesis 2:15, “Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.” In other words, God told man to work.

God clearly knew work would be good for us. He gave man his first job, if you will. Yet those extended periods of time, when we work hard and long days, causes us to long for “a day off”. We want ”“ rest.

In Genesis 2, we are further told:

“By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.” (verses 2-3, NASB)

God Himself rested from His time of work. We, too, need a sabbatical, a time of rest.

What happens to us as we sabbath? How do we benefit when we slow down? I hope you will join me at Woman to Woman Ministries HERE as we look more at the concept of rest.

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